That's like asking "Where're purple and orange?" in a "Whch one is more beautiful, red, blue, or green?".I'm sorry, but where's India? SE Asia? Korea? Japan?
Anyway...Japanese and Koreans are in the Far East, of course, but I don't remember Ancient/Medieval Japanese/Koreans invented something...significant?
Because there is no Maya/Inca/Aztec option, I guess...?The Middle Eastern civilization such as Sumer, Akkad, Bablyonia, Persia, Phoenicia, etc. but I can't say that I like this poll one bit.
Ahem...ever heard about Four Great Inventions of ancient China?The Far East did most of the things accomplished by the Middle East independently (and, in my impression, more steadily), but were too isolated, thus their overall contribution to civilization as a whole was not as great.
Like an English philosopher once said:
"Papermaking, printing, gunpowder and the compass: These four have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world; the first and the second in literature, the third in warfare, the fouth in navigation; whence have followed innumerable changes, in so much that no empire, no sect, no star seems to have exerted greater power and influence in human affairs than these mechanical discoveries."
And the fact that the last option get only 2 votes out of 55 voters, pretty much proves that this forum way too underestimate Chinese contributions...